At 12:51 PM 7/29/2002, David Laight wrote:
> >
> > What is it you are after?  Why would you need to change MAC addresses?
> > (the ONLY time I've ever needed it was with an HA/Failover situation).
>
>In order to run decnet???
>Requires locally administered addresses.  IIRC top 14 bits (after
>multicast/unicast and locally/globally administerd) are the network
>and bottom 32 the machine number.

You remember incorrectly. :)

aa-00-04-00-ii-jj

where 0xiijj = (area * 1024 + node) of (area.node)

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